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Are you downloading? 

Question asked by one player to another when a game suffers lag. Often used by gamers playing swos.
Housemate 1: "My game's lagging, are you downloading?"

Housemate 2: "No I'm not, it must be the guy in Germany."
Are you downloading? by RichT February 12, 2008

COMPULSIVE DOWNLOADING DISORDER 

COMPULSIVE DOWNLOADING DISORDER (CDD)

Is an anxiety disorder characterized by uncontrollable, wanted thoughts of DOWNLOADING Anything and everything you feel compelled to have or don't have.

SYMPTOMS INCLUDE-

TERA-UNIVERSING:
The Overwhelming feeling that there is never enough storage space on a terabyte or larger hard drive even when half full.

BYTE-NIBBLING:
The refusal to download any thing larger than 500 megabytes in order to conserve storage space.

TORRENT-SURFING:
Searching for the smallest possible torrent file size saving even more storage space and gaining faster downloading speeds allowing you to download more at once.

MAGA-DRIVING:
Excessively shopping online for external hard drives with more storage space just to have an extras. Also known as (GIG HOPPING)
(CDD)

Was searching for a certain TV series and was compelled to download others. COMPULSIVE DOWNLOADING DISORDER

binge downloading 

Downloading many, many albums, movies etc. when you realise it's the end of the month and you want your month's worth of downloading. Usually done so the rest of the month has Broadband-speed internet.
"Any albums you want while I'm binge downloading?"

drive-by downloading 

operator being tricked into giving permission to download without realizing the download contains malware.
fake anti-virus scams are almost always nothing more than drive-by downloading
drive-by downloading by patnoyb February 19, 2012

Drunk Downloading 

Getting shittanked and downloading something you would not otherwise download.
Brent downloaded 16 gigs of Captain Planet in a drunk downloading stupor.
Drunk Downloading by Mattius459 September 10, 2011

Chronic Pornography Downloading Syndrome 

The term used for individuals who download mass amounts of pornography but do not necessarily view or even care for the content in question. Many who suffer from CPDS also tend to be porn pack rats who archive and save all their downloaded content (possibly never reviewing such content).
Person 1: I downloaded 20 gigs of softcore porn last night!
Person 2: I thought you weren't into softcore stuff?
Person 1: You're right but it's just nice to have it.
Person 2: Dude you suffer from Chronic Pornography Downloading Syndrome...